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Preg. with twins?

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I'm 22 yrs old, I am 12 weeks pregnant with my first, and I started showing very early. I'm slim and fit, always had a very flat tummy.
People were asking if I was preg. at 7/8 weeks.
I have twin sibblings (boy and girl), plus I know I've ovulated twice before (I'm one of the rare women who can feel when I ovulate).
At 11 weeks preg. my baby's heartbeat was extremly loud and strong (thus maybe indicating two babies side-by-side?). Everyone's teasing my husband and I.. but I'd really love to know my chances of having tiwns...

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I'm 26 and 34 weekks pregnant with twins, I've read everything I could. Mainly because I wanted to blame my husband. Twins is always the mothers fault, so if there were ever twins on your side then there is a chance for you. However there is speculation of twins skipping a generation. Normally the chance of conceving twins increases with age, and with the number of previous pregnancys. Every woman and pregnany is different however, so women barely show at all when they have strong stomach muscles. And even hearing only one heartbeat doesn't mean there isn't twins (this happened with me).. I didn't have an increase with any of my symptoms except heartburn, and I was just pop looking very pregnant at 3 months. Request an ultrasound, and let the technicain know your concerns

i agree with the last two people who responded i would get an ultra sound. They can also do blood work to confirm the test if the levels are high then it is a good chance that you are pregnant with twins. When I found out this year that i am pregnant they did the blood work and the test was alot higher than normal the normal average the hospital said for a woman to be pregnant was 1500 and i was reading at 6000 so they did the ultra sound and then thats when they told me that i was having twins. I too had dreams about babies and then one night about 3 weeks before i found out that i was having boys i had a dream and i yelled boys and then i woke up and after that i went to the ultra sound and they confirmed that they were both boys. I also had dreams about my son as well and i knew he was a boy before it was confirmed so i do believe that you can have dreams about a baby and they can be true. But like i said it is from my own experience

I agree with the previous post. You need to ask to be checked for twins via ultrasound. I had an ultrasound done by a different tech. once and I already knew I was having twins but she didn't. She 'found' one baby and started to clean me up and put the equipment away. When I asked her if she could find the other one, she went back and 'found' the other baby. So, sometimes if they're not really trying, they may not see both babies in the ultrasound if they're not looking. Hope this helps- Beth

I can't stop thinking that I'm having twins. All my baby dreams have been the same, 2 little girls. I think there was another face on the ultrasound, but the tech didn't say anything about another baby. I'm 23 weeks and measuring 6-7 larger than a singleton. I have also been feeling movement everywhere, I'll feel something up my my rib cage and a second later I'll feel something else near my pubic bone. Is this just wishful thinking? Or are my instincts right?

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